Australian Big Brother's Tilly Whitfield Warns About TikTok Freckle Hack That Caused Her Temporary Blindness & Scars

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Tilly Whitfeld is sharing what not to do. The 21-year-old Big Brother Australia star recently opened up about the danger of a TikTok trend she saw for homemade freckles.

In an interview with the New York Times, she revealed why she was largely wearing clay face masks and heavy makeup on the show. Click inside to read more… She said that last August, she found a TikTok tutorial for how to give yourself freckles that would last for six months using sewing needles and ink.

Though the tutorial didn’t specify the type of ink, she ordered brown tattoo ink she found on eBay, which she later found out was a counterfeit product made with high levels of lead. “It didn’t hurt at all, so I didn’t think I should stop,” she explained.